On 16 March in Krasnoyarsk took place an enlarged session of the Board on the issues of security and law and order under the authorized representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District (SFD). On the agenda of the session there was the issue “On rising efficiency of cooperation and managing of the activities of the federal and the SFD executive authorities relating to identification and blocking the terrorist financing networks”.
Among the participants were the authorized representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the (SFD) Mr. Kvashnin, the Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service Mr. Zubkov, the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region Mr. Chloponin and the Heads of the SFD and its regions law enforcement agencies and supervisors.
Mr. Zubkov’s speech focused on the analyses of the day-to-day situation in the SFD within the AML/CFT sphere. Besides he pointed out the key sources and channels of the financial support of the criminal community. The Head of Rosfinmonitoring specified the main sphere of activities of the Service on identification and blocking the channels and methods of terrorist financing, widespread financial transactions made for the purpose of financial support of terrorist alignment. Moreover Mr. Zubkov gave particular examples of suppression of their criminal activity thanks to the joint actions of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service and law enforcement agencies.
Mr. Zubkov pointed out the necessity of preparation to the coming round of mutual evaluation with the participation of the FATF and MONYVAL representatives. The purpose of the round is to assess the state and effectiveness of the national system on combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
In the conclusion particular steps were identified in order to improve the effectiveness of ML/CFT measures.
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